1. Customer Case Study
Tesco: “It was important for us to choose a trustworthy partner for
the reliable provision of telco services to our stores in the entire region.”
Regional Data Network
The volume of services GTS provides Tesco has been steadily growing since 2005, at first because of significant
growth within the Czech Republic, and then in 2011 as a result of Tesco’s decision to extend this growth to other
countries in which GTS operates. Tesco Stores has obtained unified, guaranteed IP VPN service for its retail chain
stores throughout the entire Central and Eastern European region.
Tesco // Reliable connection, guaranteed savings
Tesco is a global grocery and gen- then expanded by implementing pany applications. GTS provides
eral merchandise retailer head- an IP VPN network to include Hun- primary and redundant services at
quartered in the United Kingdom. gary, Poland and Slovakia. GTS each store, and guarantees per-
It is one of the top three larg- now serves approximately 15% of formance of the network through
est retailers in the world and has all Tesco stores in the world spread industry-leading service level
stores in 14 countries throughout across the following CEE countries: agreements. The network is the
Asia, Europe and North America. backbone for mission critical Tes-
● Czech Republic over 210
co data applications like payment
Tesco Stores has been using GTS’s ● Hungary over 220
transactions, supply chain and
services in the Czech Republic ● Poland over 390
employee information systems.
since 2005. In connection with the ● Slovakia over 80
expanded service provided to the In addition to a regional IP VPN
This GTS IP Virtual Private Net-
retail chain, a continually greater network, GTS provides Tesco with
work (VPN) service enables Tesco
number of stores, branches and other mission critical services like
to easily and efficiently connect all
warehouses have been added and data center collocation, dedicated
company stores with a single, pri-
the volume of services has subse- internet access, voice and SMS
vate network, thereby significantly
quently increased rapidly. Mutual services.
reducing operational expenses for
cooperation in one country was
dependably running internal com-

2. Customer Case Study
// WHY GTS?
“It was important for Tesco to European region. On the basis of to the entire region with an IP VPN
choose a trustworthy partner for quality references and good ini- network,” said John Herz, direc-
the reliable provision of telecom- tial experience with the services tor of IT for Central and Eastern
munication services to our stores of GTS in the Czech Republic, we Europe for Tesco Stores.
in the entire Central and Eastern decided to expand our coopera­ ion
t
SK central site Bratislava SK warehouses SK Shops
CZ Central site
Praha
Praha, GTS
datacentrum
GTS core data network
SK ADSL network
(backup)
Praha, CE Colo
datacentrum
IP MPLS VPN CZ MPLS VPN SK IP
HU Central site Budapest
MPLS VPN INT IP
CZ Warehouses
HU Warehouses
IP MPLS VPN PL MPLS VPN HU IP
CZ ISDN network
(dial-up backup)
HU ADSL network
PL ISDN network (backup)
CZ Shops (dial-up backup) HU Shops
CE Router
Primary line
Backup line
PL Shops PL warehouses PL Central site Krakow
GTS Network Advantages GTS Operational Advantages
● obust networking because a
r ● uaranteed QoS (Quality of Ser-
g ● entralized and proactive net-
c
single regional network run by vice) and SLA (Service Level work surveillance and mainte-
GTS is more powerful than indi- Agreement) nance with CEE
vidual ones in each country ● bility to expand IP VPN (MPLS)
a ● ultilingual support across the
m
● ower direct costs through vol-
l services throughout Europe CEE region
ume purchasing through partner networks ● mployees in every country fo-
e
● ower indirect costs as one net-
l ● xtensive product portfolio to
e cused on delivering the best ser-
work is cheaper to operate build additional services on to vice
● dvanced and secure technology
a IP VPN network such as unified ● nly one invoice for the region
o
based on IP communications ● ompany culture focused on our
c
● rimary and backup service at
p customers
every Tesco store using multiple
access methods
Your contact for business solutions in Central Europe:
For more information or to further explore enhancement of your telecommunication networking within the Central European region, please contact us.
www.gtsce.com